The back view reveals a sharply concave silver-white metal surface running the length of the instrument. You Got The LookĪs you can see from the photos, the LP has some unusual and eye-catching design features: the control panel is fitted at a 45-degree angle which emulates the adjustable tilt of a Minimoog control section, but unlike the Mini, the LP's panel is fixed in position and won't come crashing down on your fingers at the slightest provocation. Congratulations to Doctor Bob and the manufacturers for not compromising on this important point. The word 'professional' springs to mind, and better still, the synth will work straight out of the box with anything from a 90 to a 250 Volt power source. I'm very glad to say that unlike most of its competitors, this synth has a proper built-in power supply rather than one of those hateful little wall-wart adapters. Played from an 88-note master keyboard, you can access the full range over MIDI without any button-pushing, but the LP's compass extends still further - its analogue oscillators produce discrete musical pitches over nearly nine octaves, virtually the entire MIDI note range. A pair of octave buttons allow the player to access two lower and two higher octaves, giving the keyboard an effective playing range of seven octaves. The LP has a three-octave (C to C), 37-note keyboard - this is seven notes fewer than the Voyager, which (like the original Minimoog) goes down to a low F. To British ears, 'Little Phatty' sounds like a childish nickname designed to hurt the feelings of a younger sibling, so to avoid tears at bedtime let's call the little fellow 'LP' for short. The result is the Little Phatty monophonic analogue synthesizer, Bob Moog's last design and parting legacy to the North Carolina-based company who carry on his work and his name. While the top-of-the-range Voyager roamed the galaxy, notching up stellar reviews and accolades from star players, the man whose surname is virtually synonymous with the word 'synthesizer' was down on earth designing a more stripped-down instrument which would offer classic Moog features in an attractive yet affordable package. Before his death in August 2005, Bob Moog worked tirelessly on the development of a new synth aimed at those operating with restricted finances (in other words, practically the entire musical community). The man may be gone, but the legendary name and instruments live on. Visit /slimphatty for more information.Bob Moog's final project carries his visionary synthesizer design into the future. If your musical explorations actually take you around the world, the Little Phatty and Slim Phatty’s convenient size and universal power supplies make them ideal travel partners. “The world may be a little smaller, but the sound just got a lot bigger.” “The alternate scale capabilities of the Slim Phatty and Little Phatty make Moog’s analog synths right at home in everything from Indian ragas and Arabic maqaams to Balinese gamelan scales.” said Mike Adams, President of Moog Music. An unlimited number of tunings can be saved on your computer and the synthesizer’s hardware can store up to thirty-two different tunings enough to take you around the world and back again. Scala files (can be imported and exported for use with other tuning software. Tuning data is easily editable and is displayed as a ratio, frequency and in cents. Indian, Chinese and Turkish scales are now easily accessible along with Meantone, Pythagorean, Just and other historic and experimental temperaments.Īvailable for the Slim Phatty and coming soon for the Little Phatty with OS v3.0, this free download makes experimenting with alternate scales a breeze. With Moog’s Phatty Tuner software, musicians can retune each note of the octave and compose in scales once available only to players of hard-to-find world instruments. Now they can be used to explore the more exotic reaches of our own planet. For decades, Moog instruments have been used by adventurous musicians to map the sonic universe.
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